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Sisyphus Kinetic Sculpture Made of Lego by Jason Allemann

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A kinetic sculpture of the tragic Greek figure Sisyphus made of Lego by Jason Allemann of JK Brickworks. Sisyphus, who was the king of Ephyra, was punished for his self-aggrandizing craftiness and deceitfulness by being forced to roll an immense boulder up a hill for eternity, only to watch it roll back down. The sculpture was inspired by a video from Disney Research using character models moving realistically through a system of mechanical links and gears. He built his own Lego version of Sisyphus with the figure's motions achieved through a Lego Technic gearing system, while also adding motion to the boulder by tweaking the geometry.